NCPView enables you to view the configuration of IBM 3745 and 3746-900 communications controllers that are running Network Control Programs (NCPs), and any problems with them. NCPView gives you greater network and NCP availability by allowing you to monitor NCP versions 4, 5, 6, and 7.
NCPView is of value to you as a network operator as it provides increased visibility of your NCPs, including supported non-SNA protocols and physical interfaces. By using the data provided by NCPView, you have the potential to both solve problems and prevent problems from occurring in your network (for example, slow response times and inability to access the system).
NCPView provides the following features to assist you in monitoring your NCPs:
By using the data provided through NCPView's interactive panels and diagnostic aids, you can solve problems and prevent them from occurring (for example, slow response times and inability to access the system).
The NCP resources that can be monitored by NCPView and the information provided for each are as follows:
Provides the NCP release, generation date and time, subarea address, and usage tier.
Provides the controller model, storage size, operating mode, and maintenance and operator subsystem (MOSS) engineering change (EC) and FIX levels.
Provides the use of central control unit (CCU) cycles and NCP buffers, and the display of NCP storage in dump format.
Provides the size and use of NCP control block pools.
Provides window sizes, traffic rates, and congestion.
Provides the type, status, and queue sizes.
Provides the network names table, Half-session Control Blocks (HSCBs), and Gateway Network Addressable Units (GWNAUs).
Provides the type, address, and status.
Provides Token-ring Interface Couplers (TICs), physical and logical lines, stations, and routes.
Provides IP router statistics.
Provides adapters that are on the 3746-900 expansion frame.